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On December 13 2014 13:45 Orcasgt24 wrote:
Every time the camera pans to Eakins hes standing still being all like quite, idol and invisible. Every other coach is always saying things, yelling across the bench and 'coaching'
Eakins is a robot and sometimes they either forget to plug him in before the games or accidentally leave him on vibrate.
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Made something for you guys
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hahahahahaha
so sid has the mumps. I love the fact that the team thought nothing of trotting him out in front of the media even though mumps can very much be transmitted via air through a cough or sneeze
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Almost like a "fuck you media guys", I don't mind it really.
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So when are the Oilers going to make a move? It seems to me like they should have done something at this point in time, living on the east coast I don't get to see much of them or hear much about them. I know people are low balling them with offers because everyone knows they are desperate...but it's time to bite the bullet and make a move. Winning one of your last sixteen is unacceptable for any team in any professional league.
Unless they really just want to tank for Mcdavid and hope another first round pick will solve all their problems. But we all know how that has worked for them in the past.
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If there's any media group that deserves to a little biological warfare, it's Pittsburgh's media group. Did you guys hear that idiot from their radio group crack a joke about not being able to breathe?? jesus.
It's a tough spot because, as you pointed out, anything offer they're getting is going to reflect the fact that they're desperate and everyone's trade value is currently at its lowest
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On December 15 2014 23:37 QuanticHawk wrote:
If there's any media group that deserves to a little biological warfare, it's Pittsburgh's media group. Did you guys hear that idiot from their radio group crack a joke about not being able to breathe?? jesus.
It's a tough spot because, as you pointed out, anything offer they're getting is going to reflect the fact that they're desperate and everyone's trade value is currently at its lowest
Yea, but at this point is it really going to get any better? Unless Edmonton goes on a miracle run those trade values are going to stay in the dumps and get lower with every lose. To me it can only get worse from here and they just need to take the least shitty offer they can find now. Or bare minimum do the short term band aid fix and fire the whole coaching staff. And I mean WHOLE coaching staff do a complete fucking house cleaning of that toxic environment. Maybe get a hard ass old school coach in there who isn't afraid to bench some 'star' players for not hustling.
Edit: Some sources are claiming the Oilers have in fact fired Eakins. A start but that is putting a band-aid on a .50 caliber gunshot wound at this point imo.
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I don't think firing the coaching staff is enough to fix anything with the oilers. That team is just fucking bad. It's built bad and plays bad. The West is built down the center and all the top teams are 2-3 highly skilled centers deep while the pliers have nothing. This is ignoring the fact that in the last 10 years they've had multiple 1st overall picks plus other top picks and ave somehow managed to get even worse. They should be taking any offer that makes their team even the slightest better. Hell I'd be fine if CHI traded them Morin for a bag of pucks. The entire organization is a mess and honestly I can't even fault the players.
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MacT is the new Oilers coach for the time being, I wonder how long until he fires himself.
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6th coach in 7 years. The next one will definitely fix everything.
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If that doesn't work, do you think he will fire himself?
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On December 15 2014 23:55 Necro)Phagist( wrote:Show nested quote +On December 15 2014 23:37 QuanticHawk wrote:
If there's any media group that deserves to a little biological warfare, it's Pittsburgh's media group. Did you guys hear that idiot from their radio group crack a joke about not being able to breathe?? jesus.
It's a tough spot because, as you pointed out, anything offer they're getting is going to reflect the fact that they're desperate and everyone's trade value is currently at its lowest Yea, but at this point is it really going to get any better? Unless Edmonton goes on a miracle run those trade values are going to stay in the dumps and get lower with every lose. To me it can only get worse from here and they just need to take the least shitty offer they can find now. Or bare minimum do the short term band aid fix and fire the whole coaching staff. And I mean WHOLE coaching staff do a complete fucking house cleaning of that toxic environment. Maybe get a hard ass old school coach in there who isn't afraid to bench some 'star' players for not hustling. Edit: Some sources are claiming the Oilers have in fact fired Eakins. A start but that is putting a band-aid on a .50 caliber gunshot wound at this point imo.
haahahah MacT. Flaccid's probably drunk already and it's not even 2 on the east coast!
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The star players have generally been good but not great. That should be within expectations considering how thin the rest of the forwards are after the big 3. A hard ass coach can't unfuck a horrible roster put together by Mr. Life Tenure himself, MacT.
Outside of Perron, Purcell, and Puliot, it's pretty much a mish mosh of players who shouldn't even be in the NHL because they suck or they're not ready. And even those three dudess have the deck stacked against them because the team is so weak down the middle that everything is off. Opposing teams are free to match lines vs the top guys, and then feast on the AHL-level bottom 9. Yakapov, no matter how much his issues may or may not be of his own doing, certainly isn't getting any favors by playing with people who have little to no skill.
And that's without touching on the dumpster fire that is the defense and goaltending situation, or Eakin's baffling decision to take a slow and stupid defense and have them play a system that does not play to their strengths.
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Meh Oilers.
I feel bad for Eakins. Not that he was a good coach or anything but he was always in a position to fail. Just like everyone else on the bench at an Oilers game. He was never given a full deck to play with and that part is not his failing. They're running out of scapegoats and the Oilers are like 2 more firings away from throwing Joey Moss under the bus.
Man it must suck to play in Edmonton. This is year infinity of the Oilers annual march to the December tank job. It's as if the team starts every season with "well, we'll see how this goes..." and then, if low enough come winter, they begin making very strange decisions that are obviously not geared towards winning hockey games.
They've done it year over year. Once the losses begin to pile up, they immediately pull the plug on the season. Injuries at center? Fuck calling up our best option from the AHL. You get Brad "Bleeding Changes" Hunt to play big defensive minutes. It's so obvious what they're doing. Just hang the team out to dry another year and then get pissed off when players start to phone it in. Because McDavid. Because arena. Because Oilers.
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Obviously if Oilers were run by competent instead of good old boys this would never happen but its amazing that even in failure they cant grasp that the key to at least keeping the fans engaged outside of their minute of disgust is to start getting creative. Dont appoint a new coach from the same tired old man pool for this season, no coach would turn this shit around. Instead start doing a sweepstakes to any ticket purchasers over the last 3 months: you get to be coach for a month. Sure, you say, who would be dumb enough to buy Oilers tickets when they telegraphed so clearly that they would suck? Well, idiots of course, but that level of idiocy is still at least 4 times superior to the sheer levels of retardation currently permeating the entire oilers organization so it would be an upswing.
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I would have to imagine Yak City is being moved real soon after this. It's gonna be great when he turns into a ppg somewhere else.
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The only way that the Oilers ever become relevant again is if they fire absolutely everyone in that front office, top-to-bottom, and completely rebuild from nothing.
Good luck with that.
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leafs are 9-1-1 since the 9-2 loss to nashville :D also leafs are 100% when scoring first. can't happen forever but it's amazing. i dont think we're in a position to tank for mcdavid anymore though  would you prefer canes get mcdavid or oilers? oilers would ruin him but carolina is going under too...
like every other leafs fan - pleased, but with muted optimism
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On December 16 2014 05:53 Blisse wrote:leafs are 9-1-1 since the 9-2 loss to nashville :D also leafs are 100% when scoring first. can't happen forever but it's amazing. i dont think we're in a position to tank for mcdavid anymore though would you prefer canes get mcdavid or oilers? oilers would ruin him but carolina is going under too... like every other leafs fan - pleased, but with muted optimism
You're ahead of every single canadian team besides the Habs, while not being title contenders they're still a team that can win on any given night. The coin just keeps landing on heads, if you're not happy with a winning streak you'll forever be disappointed with your team a la Boston with their sports teams.
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you dont seem to understand leafs fans well :p
also we're #2 in goals for O: 2 goals behind tampa with 1 game in hand so far ._. there are too many positives, im so scared
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Lol, Buchberger is back in at Oklahoma.
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On December 16 2014 09:22 Blisse wrote:
you dont seem to understand leafs fans well :p
also we're #2 in goals for O: 2 goals behind tampa with 1 game in hand so far ._. there are too many positives, im so scared
No I do. The morning after the Bruins crushed Reimer in the 2011 season I tuned into 590 the Fan and got reallllll familiar.
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